Rodrigo Vazquez, 2008, 2010, Documentary, Bolivia, UK, 44min, Spanish/English with English subtitles
Since the beginning of the Iraq War the Llallagua mine has seen a boom of mineral demand from the US arms manufactures. As a result, many poor peasants without any experience such as Alex Choque and Jorge Campos (aged 9 and 13 respectively) have started working in the mines. Their parents are ill or dead after contracting what the people of Llallagua call the “mine disease”, the same disease that they are prone to everyday. Alex and Jorge have dreams of a better life. They want to study, but they can’t, their families depend on them to survive.